Ball Games Quotes - Page 2

• Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Daughter, Dad, Children

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• Hitting a golf ball correctly is the most sophisticated and complicated maneuver in all of sports, with the possible exception of eating a hot dog at a ball game without getting mustard on your shirt.

  Ray Fitzgerald

  Sports, Dog, Golf

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• The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.

  Vance Havner

  Sunday, Games, Church

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• So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.

  Danny Elfman

  Writing, Exercise, Successful

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• What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?

  Grover Cleveland

  Thinking, Games, People

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• Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.

  Edna Ferber

  Baseball, Games, Doe

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Buttered Side Down”, p.37, Booklassic

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• A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional.

  Stephen Leacock

  Sports, Player, Men

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.55, The Floating Press

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• In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.

  Woody Allen

  Morning, Real, Character

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• Reading scripts is actually quite a relaxing part of the job. Strangely relaxing. This is a whole different ball game.

  Jack O'Connell

  Jobs, Reading, Games

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Games, Mad

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• I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned how to combat depression. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it. I just figured out that it's a choice. You're in control of your brain. When your brain is sending you bad information or bad thoughts, you can decide to go to the gym, or write a new joke - or if you're on the road, go to a ball game... something that's going to get the blood going. Or you can let those thoughts take you right down the rabbit hole.

  Bill Burr

  Writing, Blood, Games

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• That's the name of the game ... pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we've lost the ball game.

  Ray Kroc

  Sight, Games, Names

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• When your blood is found at the murder scene, that's the end of the ball game, there's nothing more to say.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Blood, Games, Balls

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I knew if we could pull in the Stephen King fans, we'd have a ball game. The point at which I finally became confident of the audience interest was when I showed up at one of the Marvel midnight openings to launch the very first issue of Dark Tower.

  Peter David

  Kings, Dark, Games

  Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com

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• I'm not a fearful person, but I'm a pretty pessimistic person. So some of my best times are waiting, anticipating. That's the way it always has been with me, whether anticipating a ball game, anticipating a relationship.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Games, Waiting, Pessimistic

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I like to go see a ball game. I'll have seven, eight, nine - 10 beers, and the second inning will roll around, and I gotta go.

  Doug Benson

  Beer, Games, Eight

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• Being an entrepreneur, everyone needs to hear a personal anecdote from you once in a while or see you go out of your way to make someone's day. Maybe it's time for a party at your house to unwind, or an afternoon off with the team to attend the ball game.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Party, Games

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think the Americans don't understand that this is a complicated new ball game. People everywhere have seen that a few determined people who were not scared to die can create a huge upheaval within a major superpower.

  Imran Khan

  Thinking, Games, People

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• Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Games, Different, Balls

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Fighting, Games, Sweat

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder.

  Charles Comiskey

  Games, Twenties, Balls

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• I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.

  Don Rickles

  Games, Watches, Needs

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Games, Balls, Internet

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• When you go to South Africa, you get a different vibe and a different sound. The music is awesome the people are loving it. When you go to Botswana, it's a different ball game. The people out there love Afro Beat Hip Hop so much. When you go to Sierra Leone it's different, when you go to Nigeria it's different... It's all pretty exciting!

  Ice Prince

  Games, People, Hip Hop

  Source: mobo.com

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• If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

  Jim Lehrer

  Games, Needs, Balls

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